a multimedia disease education program

A unique program that illustrates the value of a multidisciplinary approach for optimal management of patients with Kit+ GIST.
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This web-based program covers issues relevant to the multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment of GIST. You will be able to follow the diagnostic and treatment pathways of GIST through a series of specialty and case-based modules developed by some of the country's leading GIST experts.

Each module addresses topics directly related to the role of the pathologist, gastroenterologist, surgeon, and oncologist in the diagnosis and management of GIST, and highlights how a multidisciplinary approach is essential to the optimal management of patients with Kit+ GIST.

Meet the Faculty

Surgeons

Julian A. Kim, MD
Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology
Charles A. Hubay Professor of Surgery
University Hospitals Case Medical Center
			

Burton L. Eisenberg, M.D.
Deputy Director, Norris Cotton Cancer Center 
Associate Director, Clinical Research
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
			 

PATHOLOGISTS

Christopher Corless, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology  
Division of Pathology
Oregon Health and Science University
			

Brian Rubin, MD, PhD
Director, Soft Tissue Pathology
Departments of Anatomic Pathology and Molecular Genetics Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute, and Taussig
Cancer Center

GASTROENTEROLOGISTS

Douglas Faigel, MD, FACG
Professor of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology
Oregon Health and Science University
			

Girish Mishra, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Gastroenterology Director of Endoscopy & Endoscopic Ultrasound Services Wake Forest University School of Medicine